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Wang, Lin; Bastiaansen, Marcel; Yang, Yufang; Hagoort, Peter – Neuropsychologia, 2011
To highlight relevant information in dialogues, both wh-question context and pitch accent in answers can be used, such that focused information gains more attention and is processed more elaborately. To evaluate the relative influence of context and pitch accent on the depth of semantic processing, we measured event-related potentials (ERPs) to…
Descriptors: Cues, Language Processing, Semantics, Brain Hemisphere Functions
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Lust, J. M.; Geuze, R. H.; Van de Beek, C.; Cohen-Kettenis, P. T.; Groothuis, A. G. G.; Bouma, A. – Neuropsychologia, 2010
Brain lateralization refers to the division of labour between the two hemispheres in controlling a wide array of functions and is remarkably well developed in humans. Based on sex differences in lateralization of handedness and language, several hypotheses have postulated an effect of prenatal exposure to testosterone on human lateralization…
Descriptors: Brain Hemisphere Functions, Gender Differences, Human Body, Language Processing
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Strelnikov, K.; Rouger, J.; Lagleyre, S.; Fraysse, B.; Deguine, O.; Barone, P. – Neuropsychologia, 2009
Several neuropsychological and neuroimaging studies on gender differences in speech processing lead to the suggestion that women use the neural network of predictive and integrative analysis of speech to a larger extent than men. During speech-reading there is indeed a lack of reliable clues for word recognition which should emphasize predictive…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Phonemes, Females, Deafness
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Burman, Douglas D.; Bitan, Tali; Booth, James R. – Neuropsychologia, 2008
Why females generally perform better on language tasks than males is unknown. Sex differences were here identified in children (ages 9-15) across two linguistic tasks for words presented in two modalities. Bilateral activation in the inferior frontal and superior temporal gyri and activation in the left fusiform gyrus of girls was greater than in…
Descriptors: Females, Linguistics, Language Tests, Cognitive Processes